Boundary spanning and practical impact in is research: a bourdieusian analysis

dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Stephenen
dc.contributor.authorScholta, Hendriken
dc.contributor.authorHausvik, Geir Ingeen
dc.contributor.authorBusch, Peter Andréen
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-07T14:20:28Z
dc.date.available2025-01-07T14:20:28Z
dc.date.issued2024en
dc.description.abstractInformation systems (IS) research often seeks to deliver practical impact in addition to the traditional requirement for theoretical contribution. While an admirable goal, it is nevertheless a challenging prospect, as key questions remain around how best to facilitate a relationship between IS academic and practitioner communities. To explore this issue, we analyse multi-case study data from interviews with 24 IS practitioner doctorates, industry contact points, and senior IS academics who sought to create a joint field between academia and practice during their research. Our findings reveal several boundary spanning activities needed to traverse field boundaries and maintain the joint field's existence across the stages of proof-of-concept, proof-of-value, and proof-of-use. Building on insights from the work of Pierre Bourdieu, we further discuss how IS practitioner doctorates operationalised capital, doxa, and habitus to achieve varying degrees of practical impact in their work. Action-oriented recommendations are presented to support practical impact going forward including creolised messages and the mobilisation of capital to change inter-field relationships. By adapting Bourdieu's Theory of Practice to the engaged scholarship discourse in IS, we contribute new insights into how the academia-practice gap might be addressed.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid12577en
dc.identifier.citationMcCarthy, S., Scholta, H., Hausvik, G.I. and Busch, P.A. (2024) ‘Boundary spanning and practical impact in is research: a bourdieusian analysis’, Information Systems Journal, p. isj.12577 (28pp). https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12577en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12577en
dc.identifier.eissn1365-2575en
dc.identifier.endpage28en
dc.identifier.issn1350-1917en
dc.identifier.journaltitleInformation Systems Journalen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16782
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd.en
dc.rights© 2024, The Author(s). Information Systems Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAcademia-practice gapen
dc.subjectBoundary spanningen
dc.subjectDesign science researchen
dc.subjectEngaged IS scholarshipen
dc.subjectPractical impacten
dc.subjectQualitative researchen
dc.subjectRelevanceen
dc.subjectTheory of practiceen
dc.titleBoundary spanning and practical impact in is research: a bourdieusian analysisen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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